Isak Dinesen, an utterly obscure author, would emerge into the spotlight as one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century, a woman who had ''style'' as well as a remarkably grave and luminous prose style, and whose works as they followed her veiled debut seemed successive enlargements of her dramatic persona.

The film ''Out of Africa,'' starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, has spurred a revival of interest in Isak Dinesen's works. A half-dozen books by or about her have been published to coincide with the release of the movie, with the result that the life and times of a writer who died in 1962 are suddenly big news in the bookstores.

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Documents newly released by the Swedish Academy reveal that its members were generally dissatisfied with the candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, when the prize was awarded to John Steinbeck.

April 29, 2007, Sunday

The photographer Richard Avedon has given the Metropolitan Museum of Art 115 of his portraits, including those of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marilyn Monroe, the physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the playwright Edward Albee and the artist Willem de...

KAREN BLIXEN, the Danish baroness who as Isak Dinesen wrote "Out of Africa," told a friend, "When I am dead, you should make a book about my flower arrangements." More than three decades later, "Karen Blixen's Flowers: Nature and Art at Rungstedlund"...

Denmark's most successful author since Isak Dinesen is a 36-year-old former ballet dancer named Peter Hoeg who owns no television set, telephone or car and whose idea of a bad time is having to appear in public. "It's not like I'm a pop star or an...

October 6, 1993, Wednesday

The Danish home of Baroness Karen Blixen, who wrote the autobiographical "Out of Africa" and other books under the name Isak Dinesen, is to be opened to the public as the Karen Blixen Museum. The house called Rungstedlund in Rungsted, about 15 miles...

Kenya has converted into a museum the Nairobi house of Baroness Karen Blixen, the Danish author who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen and whose life in Kenya at the beginning of the century is depicted in the book and movie ''Out of Africa.'' ...

By John Updike; John Updike's new novel, ''Roger's Version,'' will be published in the fall

WHEN the Book-of-the-Month Club offered ''Seven Gothic Tales,'' by Isak Dinesen, as its selection for April of 1934, its newsletter said simply, ''No clue is available as to the pseudonymic author.'' But even then, with some detective work by the...

February 23, 1986, Sunday

To the Editor: Reading the pieces on Kenya, unfortunately similar to much of the commentary on ''Out of Africa,'' to say nothing of the film itself, I am impressed with how little things have changed, not in Kenya, but in American thinking about...

February 9, 1986, Sunday

To the Editor: It is astonishing to read an article entitled ''Kenya Seen Through Writers' Eyes'' (Travel, Jan. 12) that does not mention a single indigenous Kenyan writer. Among the leading Kenyan writers are Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Grace Ogot and Meja...